countries.csv

The countries.csv data include information from the year 2019 on $N=196$ countries.

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The attributes included in the data are:

• country: Country name
• `region``: World region for the country (East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa)
• population: Population of the country
• area: Area of the country (in km sq.)
• gdp: The per person gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for differences in purchasing power (in U.S. dollars)
• life_expect: Life expectancy for all sexes (in years). This is the number of years a newborn infant would be expected to live if the current mortality rates at different ages were to stay the same.
• birth_rate: Number of live births expressed per 1,000 people in the population
• fertility: Number of live births per 1,000 females of childbearing age (between the ages of 15 and 44 years)
• death_rate: Number of deaths divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period expressed per 1,000 people in the population
• infant_mortality: Infant mortality rate for all sexes per 1,000 live births

Preview

# Load library
library(tidyverse)

# Import data
countries <- read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/epsy-5261/main/data/countries.csv")

# View data
countries

# A tibble: 196 × 10
   country             region                     population    area    gdp
   <chr>               <chr>                           <dbl>   <dbl>  <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan         South Asia                   38041754  652860   507.
 2 Albania             Europe & Central Asia         2854191   28750  5353.
 3 Algeria             Middle East & North Africa   43053054 2381741  3974.
 4 Angola              Sub-Saharan Africa           31825295 1246700  2791.
 5 Antigua and Barbuda Latin America & Caribbean       97118     440 17113.
 6 Argentina           Latin America & Caribbean    44938712 2780400  9912.
 7 Armenia             Europe & Central Asia         2957731   29740  4623.
 8 Aruba               Latin America & Caribbean      106314     180    NA 
 9 Australia           East Asia & Pacific          25365745 7741220 55057.
10 Austria             Europe & Central Asia         8879920   83879 50122.
   life_expect birth_rate fertility_rate death_rate infant_mortality
         <dbl>      <dbl>          <dbl>      <dbl>            <dbl>
 1        64.8       31.8          61.3        6.28             46.5
 2        78.6       11.6          19.5        8.08              8.6
 3        76.9       23.6           9.60       4.72             20  
 4        61.1       40.2         145.         7.98             50.2
 5        77.0       15.1          40.9        6.42              5.8
 6        76.7       16.8          62.3        7.60              8.2
 7        75.1       13.6          20.3        9.84             10.5
 8        76.3       11.8          19.7        9.20             NA  
 9        82.9       12.1          10.9        6.7               3.1
10        81.8        9.6           6.75       9.4               2.8
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